#387: Shift Work and Health

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode Danny and Alan discuss the relationship between shift work and health. Why does shift work have negative health impacts? How can one mitigate circadian misalignment? How does shift work impact nutrient metabolism? What nutrition, sleep and lifestyle strategies can help shift workers?

Show notes at: sigmanutrition.com/episode387

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 387 of the podcast. I am Danny Lennon and I am here with Alan Flanagan. Alan,
0:24.1	how are you today, sir? I'm good. I'm slowly getting more and more freedom with every passing week.
0:31.7	But more work on the PhD underway. Yeah, so the study is still running. I have a good cohort running right now that largely came from actually the last episode that went
0:44.3	live.
0:45.3	So if anyone is now listening to this that would like to take part, do email me and we can
0:52.5	get you enrolled.
0:53.5	So yeah, it's good's good sample size keeps getting bigger
0:57.2	keep recruitment open to August and yeah on top of all of this I can actually go to a pub so
1:04.9	I mean things things really couldn't be better yeah certainly a different picture to maybe this time last year. Yeah. So things are
1:13.0	looking good. And given that your current studies are looking at things like social jet lag,
1:19.8	chronotype and so on, is very much related to what we're going to discuss today. And we're going
1:24.4	to be looking at the impact of shift work on health. And there's probably kind of three segments we're going to be looking at the impact of shift work on health.
1:28.3	And there's probably kind of three segments we're kind of going to break this down into.
1:33.3	We'll look at an overview of some of the health consequences of shift work.
1:37.3	We'll then dig into some of those mechanisms that are responsible for causing those health outcomes.
1:43.3	And then finally, we will try and discuss some potential strategies that might be useful for those of you who do shift work to be better able to mitigate or offset some of these issues.
1:56.0	And so with that, hopefully it won't be all bad news that we will get around to something where there's a bit of optimism towards the end.
2:03.4	So to start, it's probably worth acknowledging that when we discuss shift work, there are, of course, many different types of shift work here.
2:10.8	A lot of our focus is probably going to be looking at either night shift work or at least in some component where there's a shift later on.
2:18.5	But of course, there can be various different types from nights that are alter dating to ones
2:24.5	that are continuous or done in blocks, whether someone's doing eight hour shifts, 12 hour shifts,
2:30.1	24 hour shifts, depending on what we're looking at. And then what we might even discuss is
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Danny Lennon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Danny Lennon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.